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Credit Union Alert – FCUs Will Soon be Able to More Easily Expel Problematic Credit Union Members

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For a long time, federal credit unions (FCUs) have requested legislative changes to allow FCUs the ability to expel members who commit fraud or engage in violent or disruptive behavior. It took an act of Congress to get it...more

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Lessons for Community Bank Boards from the Great Recession to Apply in the Pandemic

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In March, I dialed into the first ever “conference call only” meeting of a 14 year old community bank. The main office of the bank is located in Philadelphia and there was growing concern about the rapidly increasing number...more

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Georgia Supreme Court Weighs in on Director Liability

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The Supreme Court of Georgia issued its latest opinion on March 13, 2019 in the continuing litigation over whether former directors and officers of the now defunct Buckhead Community Bank can be held liable for financial...more

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Regulators Tackle Board Effectiveness and Overdrafts

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Host Jonathan Hightower is joined by Ken Achenbach to discuss this week's proposed guidance from the Federal Reserve on the effectiveness of bank boards. In addition, at the outset of the episode Jonathan and Ken reviewed...more

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Do you have an ATM-oriented board in an increasingly iPhone-oriented world?

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In the run up to the Fourth of July holiday, you may have missed that June 27 was the 50th anniversary of the first ATM and June 29 was the 10th anniversary of the first iPhone. I was struck by the coincidence of these two...more

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FDIC Provides Corporate Governance Guidance to Community Banks

The FDIC issued a special edition of Supervisory Insights, “A Community Bank Director’s Guide to Corporate Governance: 21st Century Reflections on the FDIC Pocket Guide for Directors.” This special corporate governance...more

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FDIC’s Corporate Governance Guidance Reinforces Board of Directors’ Role in Cybersecurity Preparedness

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has long considered a community bank’s board of directors as one of the most important elements in the successful operation of a bank. Nearly thirty years ago, the FDIC issued its...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Cyber-Risks 2015 – A Board Primer

Cyber-risk is a witch’s brew of reputational, operational, legal and financial dangers. This toxic combination exposes a financial institution to a potentially existential hazard when an intrusion occurs. The only way to...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Five on Five: How the Evolution of Fintech Is Changing the Face of Community and Regional Banks and What You Can Do About It

Watch your back - Market share for community and regional banks is slowly being taken away by “nontraditional” providers of financial services, whether they be peer-to-peer lending platforms or other distributors of...more

Butler Snow LLP

So You Think You Want to Sell the Bank

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Given, among other things, the current bank regulatory environment and dim prospects for future community bank profitability, many community bank boards are now considering the possibility of partnering with a like-sized...more

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